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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/dust-with-paddle.jpg28162112It’s been a rough summer for coal trains. There have already been at least 6 major headline-grabbing derailments, at least one of which was fatal. Then observers in the Columbia River Gorge snapped damning photos of coal trains passing through Columbia Hills State Park in Washington. Here’s one: That black cloud billowing above the train […]